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Was thinking this morning upon arising and wanted to check a quick look at the weather for today for our area, then I saw the horrific wreck of a fast train, from Seattle derailed and scattered in all directions of Interstate 5 in Washington!
Now we have had on occasion a family member or two to ride that fast train, but when they took it was more for pleasure to take a young child on their first train ride.
But in looking at the scenes they continued to show, I spent more than an hour watching to find out if anyone survived. And yes those on the roadway had survived, but those on the train were without seat-belts and left to be thrown forward or like passenger reported, "to be catapulted forward" and when you are not expecting the abrupt stop, and rock-and-roll of such a sizable vehicle. What may have been a quick business trip, turned upside down into chaos.
For whatever the cause, there is always something done that will affect another! Just look at I-5 in a snowstorm and people will leave their vehicles when they lose traction from their tires....only to affect other people who probably can make it just find for they prepared with the proper snow tires, with chains on only to find the road blocked by those who chose to stop in the middle of a lane and walk home in subzero temps!
Oh, those First Responders, who show up to put out fires like we have seen in rapid succession from Washington to California and beyond. We have seen them run to those areas of Houston, to get in boats to help those stranded by the ever growing flood that came to that region in August of 2017.
My husband had opportunity to talk with a First Responder who was from Maine. He is a firefighter and came with a group of men who travel far from family and friends, the home they love to fight fires in all regions of this country. A First Responder gives, and they give a lot!
Heard of two lives of fire fighters lost this past week. One from California and one from Oregon. Each devoted their lives to helping others, and they lost their own lives doing it.
Again, First Responders, are those when the child on the playground gives the first hint of pain. They cry out, then sometimes a great cry with sobs as they bury their face in their own hands trying to push away tears to find mother or maybe day care provider who is close by. But the First Responder is evident in who gets to the crying child first.
If you travel to many parks for your child or grandchild to enjoy, you know of what I write here. You have seen maybe two parents available, but one just looks on while the other runs to the painful cries. Yes, you can see that played out regularly and why is only one will respond to the scene playing out in tears, maybe some blood, and possible dirty faces, hands and scraped knees?
While thinking and meditating the scene playing out, I was reminded of the woman brought to Jesus who was caught in the act of adultery.
John 8:3-12 NKJV 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery.
And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?"
6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though he did not hear. 7 So when they continued asking Him, He praise Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first."
8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raise Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"
11 She said, "No one Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."
For this world, Jesus was speaking that the darkness and all it covers is far from Him. In Him is light and life, to bring people from chaos into the place of "peace, love and joy " in Him! For those First Responders, they point no fingers of who is in the wrong, but they fight their way through flames to make right what was made wrong either by just a freakish event to something caused by man to commit some kind of heinous act against other men, other families, to people and their homes , to their jobs and even to their lives.
As the First Responder we see first on the scene of man-kind was Jesus. And He still lights the way to that which is truth and life to us! Jesus came to set the captives free, to move us from the chaos to peace in Him. He came to move us to victory in the purpose God set for us to have, and the inheritance comes to those who would be His sons and daughters.
We each can be like the First Responders! For just like the firefighters, the police officers, and those paramedics, we too can possibly be the first on the scene to see someone who needs a Savior, one who needs encouragement in their faith walk, someone who needs the word of God to understand more firmly that our lives should be the determined to obey the Lord and align to His will.
As the First Responder, let us not neglect our ministry to HIM! Let us worship and be thankful this year and every year so that we might draw on that which Jesus gave and from His life so healing will flow, and our lives will demonstrate the goodness of God to those who might need the great Medic, Jesus Christ!
Jesus wrote on the ground, and many of them I think were concerned of what He wrote. But one thing is certain, that Jesus came, He bowed not to their rant. He bowed His knee to the Father and in full view, He gave voice of His whole body for that of which He came. He wrote in the dust of that which of men would soon return to the dust of whence they came.
No finger pointing allowed when Jesus is there to protect those who are the bullied by those who commit the same crime as these did against this woman!
We are not to hold another in condemnation, we are not to point to those mistakes, for truly God makes known what must be made known and real in His own time, when truth is revealed.
Luke 12:3 "Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops."
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